Many of the examples in the book predate MC5 and need updating to use it. I would gladly appreciate help to update the examples to using the Account Manager :)
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 11:44 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 at 11:40:48 -0700, Paddy Carman wrote: > > I have been successful creating text chats using the python > > examples given in the Telepathy developer's manual. I would like to > > understand how to share telepathy connections across applications. > > Instead of creating a Connection directly (with RequestConnection), create > an Account in the AccountManager, and tell it to connect. Then, use that > Connection. > > See: http://people.collabora.co.uk/~danni/telepathy-book/chapter.accounts.html > > Existing Telepathy clients like Empathy also use the account manager, so for a > simple application, telling users to create an account using Empathy is the > easiest thing to do. > > Similarly, to interact nicely with other clients, you should deal with > Channels > via the ChannelDispatcher rather than using the Requests interface directly; > see: > > http://people.collabora.co.uk/~danni/telepathy-book/chapter.channel-dispatcher.html > > The reference implementation of an AccountManager and ChannelDispatcher is > telepathy-mission-control version 5. 5.4.x is the current stable branch, and > 5.5.x is the development branch. In principle, someone could write an > alternative implementation, but we don't recommend doing that :-) > > Simon > _______________________________________________ > telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy -- Danielle Madeley Software Developer, Collabora Ltd. Melbourne, Australia www.collabora.co.uk _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
